Empires’ Wobbly Narrative Management After Iran Debacle

After Washington and the West’s failure to achieve strategic goals vis-à-vis Iran after decades of sanctions and ill-conceived bombing campaigns, Western pundits have reverted to an exhausted scare tactic: reviving the USSR’s caricature.

Washington’s defeat ends the West’s 35-year dream — FT

Financial Times (FT), while presenting Martin Wolf’s article “The Rise and Fall of US Hegemony” on Facebook* on June 24, 2026, captioned “The world many of us hoped for some 35 years ago, after the collapse of Soviet despotism, is disappearing,” a description that invites an in-depth review of Washington’s role within its borders and across the world. FT would like its audience to believe that there has been a 35-year-long golden age in which the US has developed without constraints previously caused by Soviet despotism and has delivered the hopes of many American citizens, which is not the case. For example, millions of American workers who enjoyed high-paying unionized jobs, achieved due to socialist thought proven through the Soviet experiment, cannot find well-paying jobs 35 years afterwards. It is hard to explain how the post-Soviet order has delivered on their hope. Also, US citizens who benefited from the movement for accessible housing stemming from socialist thought, also proven in the USSR among other countries, are excluded from those living the dreams of a utopian world without the so-called Soviet despotism. Notably, homelessness figures in the US have grown from about 500,000 in 1991 to 736,000 in January 2026. Meanwhile, the Economic Policy Institute shows that the median hourly wage among Americans grew by about 25% between 1991 and 2026 despite their productivity increasing by 80%, even while median CEOs’ pay has increased by over 1049% since 1978.

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